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Just trying to find excuses to regram all of my favourite water paintings. Coral reef from 2015

On another note..... recent update from the mullumbimby washouse is that the wave is still peeling.....🌊🐟😄♥️

Today i collaged photocopied fishies on top just because i can!

#underwatermural #coral #woodchipwallpaper #alwayshandpaint

One baby-free afternoon later :) LOVING the freedom of careless quick painting!

Yes finally got the mojo to paint the babe a mural! Shes only got her own corner mind, not a whole room. Main question is... ocean or jungle theme?

Prehistoric plants detail from before i had a plant-geek partner and probably painted them better in ignorance!!

#underwater #bathroom

Absolutely in love with these purple fuschias outside TorCottage! More than enough of a reason for a rainy run up the tor. Oh @caeliemartha thought of you alot today whilst running up slopes&steps like the old lighthouse days. Hope you’ve had the bestest day everrr 💖💖💐

News of the week is that this peacock painting inspired by a trip to india and then alot of backbending in 2013 has been sold ! soon it will be hanging where it should be ,next to his mate the tiger at @yogainthelanes Brighton.

Just enough painting, just far enough away to restore my faith in muraling from my new position in mum world.

Boy what a new world it is. i can't even begin to describe how my life has changed. i’ve started and not finished writing this blog post 5 times in the last 2 months. thats’ how much time i can find for working online these days.

So here are some oriental poppies in a cute little cottage by the sea. The customer was lovely, made me a lot of tea, entertained the baby and had some very good ideas.

currently i'm focusing on NOT FREAKING OUT about being a parent and also.. because its the type of work i can do in tiny bursts of time, one handed, whilst standing in my kitchen.. i'm being a recipe creator and food stylist for indigo herbs. i knew the food was good in our house but it suprises me and makes me majorly grateful each time i'm getting paid to cook and eat!

Over this summer i have re-visited many of the different screen-printing techniques that i have learnt since Diana Milstein first taught me to mono-print in her attic in Bristol when i was 8. Throughout my youth I have dipped in and out of the print-industry and print-study and had times of no-print-at-all as ihave tried to find my place in the world . It had been amazing to have this project as a reason to confirm my print-passion and knowledge. 33 years after first visiting the Dove as an infant, i am finally making and presenting my artwork here and it feels like exactly the right place for me.

Being asked to join in with this years SAW project was a heartwarming confirmation of my official "landing" back in Somerset, and more specifically, Butleigh, after many years out in the wide world searching for.. well something!.

My work is very process-lead in that i set up the image-making techniques that i know and love, and then let loose as i over-print last weeks , or yesterdays work, so a suprise collage effect occurs out of a variety of images that i have carefully chosen. This i feel creates a suitable layering of pictures, a bit like dreams or memories that often mix together in the mind. It is a very prolific approach and a far-cry from the reproductive reason print was invented in the first place as almost all of my work ends up as unique pieces.

My sketchbooks work in a fairly similar way. I always over-work pages and overlay materials and collage as much as possible to gather as much of a "complete" record of my visual experience. The majority of the sketchbook for this project was created within 1 week staying in the Door-house in early spring. It was a magical week when not only was i watching the blossoms and the wildflowers opening infront of my eyes, joking to friends that i'd found the portal to the next dimension of beauty, but i also conceived my first child.!

Thanks to Myfannwy Morris who i only really met a handfull of times, but who clearly lit the fire under the concept of a new generation of artists entering the Dove's Amazing Space.

As well as making new work for the upcoming Amazing Space show and attending my regular shifts in the IndigoHerbs kitchen, i have been designing,planning and painting this Private mural commission in North London. AND at the same time growing a baby! yes i'm 5 months in to my first pregnancy and just spent a week up a ( not very high) ladder painting a ceiling and 3 walls! Don't let anybody tell you what is and isn't possible!

I'm putting my continued energy down to a combination of lentils, rice, greens, tahini , seaweed salad and all butter-croissants. all available very easily in London Town and usually easy to pick up on the way to, or from a swimming pool. ive had a long week of happy days,early nights and nutritious dinners that matched the colour palette.

I have been invited to take part in Somerset Arts Week this year alongside some of my longstanding local creative role models. Over the coming summer months i will be doing little residency bursts out in the amazing space that is Dove Studios Butleigh and responding with a series of screenprints and an artists book. To all be exhibited as part of theSomerset Art Works festival from september 23- october 8 2017. With great honour i will be doing all this with support from, and in the company of Bron Bradshaw Diana Milstein.

Dove studios isn't simply a beautiful rural space that has housed and supported creatives over many decades, it is no more than half a mile from where i was born and raised!

Studying and responding to this familar land has already been a glorious experience and i can't wait to see what works comes out of it.

During the late easter week this year, me and Mango dog did our first residency stint in the meadow at the Dove, staying the the funny little door-house and i got a very prolific in my sketchbook gatheringinformation about all the plants that were literally waking up from winter slumber before my very eyes!

Since then i have been getting printy, getting my squeegee around personal representations of the wonders of the various nature spaces at the dove, its all still very much in progress so watch this space.. this Amazing Space.

Spent many sunshine hours studying the patterns and textures of the plant life of Lanzarote over the xmas holidays. I used a really restricted colour palette, and went into real experiment mode using seawater to smudge stuff ,and using colour in new ways to fill a whole sketchbook. Working prolifically like this is great practise in not being too precious about mark making.

undoubtledly this work will end up in a mural somewhere in the world at some point but i'm in no rush.